HELP, MY BRAKES

[Buds007]

This morning I tried to take my brakes apart, so that I could put on a new wheel stud, or bolt. Well, I got everything off real easy, but I couldn't figure out how to put the new bolt in, or even get the old one out, so I tried to put everything back together. I am at the part that I would put the rotor on. But I can't. It is as if my parking brake is on. The drum brake parking brake is pushing out too much, bigger than the diameter of the rotor, causing the rotor not to be installed. Anyone got any ideas why it is like that. If so help me please, and quickly. I just want to get my X back.

 

[Robert]

There is a small star wheel adjuster that is accessable from inside the wheel. Turn it until your parking brake shoes have pulled in enough to get your rotors on. The adjuster is accessable through an oval shaped hole that has a rubber plug in it.

 

[Buds007]

Thank you very much, I did this before you told me, but you were exactly right. That is all I had to do.